CURRENT AFFAIRS

2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which railway zone has won the “ Best innovation award” of Indian Railways 2018-19 for its strategy ‘Plan Bee’?
A
East Coast Railway zone
B
South East Central Railway zone
C
Northeast Frontier Railway
D
North Eastern Railway zone
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Plan Bee is an amplifying system that imitates the buzz of a swarm of honey bees to keep wild elephants away from railway tracks. This strategy adopted by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has won the ‘Best Innovation Award’ in Indian Railways for the 2018-19 fiscal.

Detailed explanation-2: -The South Coast Railway zone is the 18th railway zone of the Indian railway which was introduced in the year 2019 by Piyush Goyal, the railway minister during the period. The zone has Guntur, Guntakal, Vijayawada, and Waltair divisions under it and is headquartered in Visakhapatnam.

Detailed explanation-3: -Download The E-Book Now! Kolkata city has the maximum number of Railway Headquarters in India. The largest railway zone is Northern Railway, and the smallest railway zone is the North Eastern railway zone. The first railway zone in India is the Southern Railway Zone.

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